Up Above The World

Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061137359
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up Above the World written by Paul Bowles and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-06-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the terrace of an elaborate hilltop apartment overlooking a Central American capital, four people sit making polite conversation. The American couple -- an elderly physician and his young wife -- are tourists. Their host, whom they have just met, is a young man of striking good looks and charm. The girl, his mistress, is very young and very beautiful. Sitting there, watching the sunset, the Slades seem to be enjoying the sort of fortunate chance encounter that travelers cherish. But amid the civilities and small talk, the host's casual remark to the American woman proves prophetic: "It's not exactly what you think." Masterfully -- with the poetic control that has always characterized his work -- Paul Bowles leads the reader beneath the surface of hospitality and luxury into a tortuous maze of human relationships and shifting moods, until what seems at first a merely casual encounter is seen to be one rooted in viciousness and horror.

Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up Above the World written by Paul Bowles and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jenn Reese
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763659584
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Above World written by Jenn Reese and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suspenseful sci-fi escapade plucks two children out of the ocean for a thrilling adventure. Thirteen-year-old Aluna has lived her entire life under the ocean with the Coral Kampii in the City of Shifting Tides. But after centuries spent hidden from the Above World, her colony’s survival is at risk. The Kampii’s breathing necklaces are failing, but the elders are unwilling to venture above water to seek answers. Only headstrong Aluna and her friend Hoku are stubborn and bold enough to face the terrors of land to search for way to save their people. But can Aluna’s fierce determination and fighting skills and Hoku’s tech-savvy keep them safe? Set in a world where overcrowding has led humans to adapt — growing tails to live under the ocean or wings to live on mountains — here is a ride through a future where greed and cruelty have gone unchecked, but the loyalty of friends remains true.

Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878056507
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Paul Bowles written by Paul Bowles and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected interviews with the author of The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, and The Spider's House

Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786256800
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue written by Paul Bowles and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century there flourished a peculiar breed of Englishmen—often the second sons of the aristocracy, or ambitious men from a lower class—who as soldiers, consuls and tea planters, were largely responsible for making England a great colonial power. Save for the fact that he is a staunch anticolonialist, Paul Bowles resembles these men in many respects. Like them, he appears to be happiest away from civilization as we know it; like them, he thrives when the traveling is hardest, the food ghastly or infrequent, water scarce, heat intolerable, or mosquitoes abundant. This engaging collection of eight travel essays by the author of such noted fiction as The Sheltering Sky and The Delicate Prey deals largely with places in the world that few Westerners have ever heard of, much less seen—places as yet unencumbered by the trappings, luxuries, and corruptions of modern civilization. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with remote spots in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Mohammedan worlds. The author is a sympathetic and discerning interpreter of these alien cultures, and his eyes and ears are especially alert both to what is bizarre and what is wise in the civilizations in which he settles. He is also acutely aware of the transitions occurring on the fringes of many of these regions, and he is disturbed and indignant about the corrosive effect of Western culture on the non-Christian way of life. Above all, however, Paul Bowles is a superb and observant traveler—born wanderer who finds pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships matter-of-factly and with humor. These essays provide us with Paul Bowles’s characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

Author : Rojo Boy Gamino, Adrita Goswami, S Afrose, Sankalita Roy, Kuntala Bhattacharya, Riddhima Sen, Sakshi Shree, Monika Arora, Pabitra Adhikary
Publisher : Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9357704701
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up Above the World So High written by Rojo Boy Gamino, Adrita Goswami, S Afrose, Sankalita Roy, Kuntala Bhattacharya, Riddhima Sen, Sakshi Shree, Monika Arora, Pabitra Adhikary and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

Author : Viction-Viction
Publisher : Viction:ary
ISBN 13 : 9789887774761
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up and Down written by Viction-Viction and published by Viction:ary. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the misty hilltops of distant lands to the freezing depths of the Arctic Ocean, Up & Down splits various settings into two fun perspectives that will intrigue little explorers. With over 500 contextual words labelled throughout 20 beautifully illustrated scenes, young readers will get to build their vocabulary while developing an eye for detail and a new sense of wonder about our world.

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Crocodile Books
ISBN 13 : 9781623718152
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eeny Up Above written by Jane Yolen and published by Crocodile Books. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curious Eeny Mole emerges from her dark hole home to discover the world up above. There were once three sisters who lived at the bottom of a deep, dark hole. Their names were Eeny, Meeny, and Miney Mole. In that hole dark was light, day was night, and summer and winter seemed the same. The older sisters, Meeny and Miney, were happy in their hole. They loved the deep darkness of it, the soft dreaminess of it, the familiar tidiness of it. They did not ever want to leave. One day Eeny Mole discovers something wonderful Up Above. And she goes exploring.

Author : Kilian Jornet
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062965050
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Above the Clouds written by Kilian Jornet and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kilian Jornet is the most dominating endurance athlete of his generation."—NEW YORK TIMES "Inspiring and humbling"— ALEX HONNOLD The most accomplished mountain runner of all time contemplates his record-breaking climbs of Mount Everest in this profound memoir—an intellectual and spiritual journey that moves from the earth’s highest peak to the soul’s deepest reaches. Kilian Jornet has broken nearly every mountaineering record in the world and twice been named National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. In 2018 he summitted Mount Everest twice in one week—without the help of bottled oxygen or ropes. As he recounts a life spent studying and ascending the greatest peaks on earth, Jornet ruminates on what he has found in nature—simplicity, freedom, and spiritual joy—and offers a poetic yet clearheaded assessment of his relationship to the mountain . . . at times his opponent, at others, his greatest inspiration.

Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062119354
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let it Come Down written by Paul Bowles and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism.